Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-17

At Chicago the most notable effect was
the falling of in east-bound shipments
to 1900 tons week before last TO $4,000
tons last week.
ST LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
A RoUsING MEETING HELD AT THE COURT
HOUSE TO SECURE THE ROAD.
The courthouse was well filed yester-
day morning with representative citizens
of Fort Worth who showed determining
ton 10 put through to a successful issue
what they had come to GO. Besides the
home people there were present j. NJ.
Cook and r. r. Nolan, the GreenviJle
committee, j. T. Kenrick and J. H. Bow
man representing Plano, and j. Z. Lips
sComb and L. Wall from Grapevine.
Colonel r. NJ. Wynne was made chair
man, when Colonel Peter Smith addressed
the meeting at some length He said that
the rumors which had been circulated to
the effect that the engineering corps Of
the 81. Louis, Arkansas and Texas had
been permanently Withdrawn and the men
paid off, had been positively denied by
kilograms from President S. w. FOrdyCe,
and no one could question the reliability
of statements from so good q source.
stated in his kilograms, merely revising
the lines. The st. Louis, Arkansas ana
Texas proposed, with proper encourage
ment from the cities of Greenvile, Piano,
Grapevine and Fort Worth, to build
line from Commerce, or some point near
Sulphur Springs, to this city, and the peO-
pie present should set the ball in motion
to secure the road. The corporation was
a powerful one, and the road one of the
very best the cities mentioned
could secure. Dallas was on q still hunt
for branch of the road to come from
Sulphur Springs south of Greenville,
running below the Missouri Pacific and
between it and the Texas and Pacific.
On May 4 the directors of the road
would meet at Texarkana, and as
the call for the meeting showed,
would consider among other things
the building of the GreenyiIle-P auO-
| Grapevne-Fort Worth road, and it
was necessary that concerted action be
taken and liberal proposition laid be-
! fore the directory at that time. If this
were done he bad no doubt the road
would be built and then it made no diff
ference TO the cities mentioned whether
Dallas got her line or not. He urged
! speedy action and liberal spirit.
A number of calls were made for Mr..
Cook of Greenville, who addressed the
meeting He had seen Colonel FordyCe
in St. Louis not long ago and held several
conferences with him. President FOrdyCe
had suggested to him the plan now being
adopted to get an expression from the
four cities which had been mentioned
and have definite proposition ready by
the time the May meeting was held.
Mr.. Cook read q letter from Colonel
FOrdyce to him, 70 the effect
that the company desired to know
what the cities on the line were willing
to do, what bonuses they would give
and what assurances in regard to
securing the right of way. Mr.
Cook said there could be no doubt
that Dallas had made big
offer for the road, Just how
big he could not say, but they wanted the
road there, and did not want it built
through Greenville, Piano and Grapevine
to Fort Worth. He was in hearty accord
with what Colonel Smith had said, and
believed by hard work the road could be
induced to build.
1t was decided to have q Fort Worth
committee of five to act with the com
mittees named above, and Colonel Peter
Smith, Joseph II. Brown, Colonel w. NJ
Harrison, Major X. NJ. VanZandt and A
M Carter were selected as the men to
serve.
After adjournment of the mass meeting
the eleven committeeman held Il lengthy
conference and placed the matter in
tangible shape, when they adjourned to
meet some day late in April, at Plano. In
the meantime the committee of the differ
ant cities will confer with their own peo-
pie and see what each place will do,
while the central committee will at once
open correspondence with President
FOrdyCe.